Quotes About Contracted

In fact, a marriage was normally contracted, as the Romans put it, 'by practice': that is, in our terms, 'by cohabitation'. If you lived together for a year, you were married. It

But above all there is speech, incessant speaking, where the inflated edges of the tube are stretched and contracted, knotted and unknotted, ripped open or pressed shut, flued and drummed, hammered and gnawed. Licked.

We also follow Peter Perla's insistence, in his The Art of Wargaming (1990), on using the contracted compound "wargaming" (not "war gaming") to represent the form's characteristic synthesis of topical simulation and ludic play.